No God

I doubt science can directly remove religion, but as our understanding of the nature of reality develops the need for creation myths/gods will be lessened and the sense of awe and comfort people get from religion they will get from knowing the way things really work.

Religion is not an absence of information or a lack of education or intelligence, it is a wholly different world view that, amongst other things, rejects 'reason' as a path to 'knowledge'. People have an innate attraction to mystery, they desire it, they are literally attracted to the unknown in the sense that they want things that they cannot understand.

Religion is at best incompatible with science and increasingly openly hostile to science. I really cannot see how something that is such anathema to core religious theology could be the thing that stems superstitious and magical thinking.

Subsequently more and more rational people are drawn away from the religions leaving groups of hardcore believers further and further isolated from a rational society. At some point in that process negative selection kicks in and the meme dies out. slowly.

hey, I can hope right?

:)

You can hope, and I share your hope, but that is all it is unfortunately. :(

Religion is on the rise, when I went to school 1 in 200 pupils in the UK believed in creationism, today that figure is 1 in 10, in American they are calling the current surge in fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity the 'third wave' - I think that is the right phrase (would need to check) but the point is that there is a massive blossoming of religion in the US over the last couple of decades, the same thing is happening in the Muslim world.

There is no reason to think that science will 'win' in this regard.